Realism Quotes

I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry...

Think I'll miss you forever,Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.

With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I...

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “...

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any exte...

Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole...

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's re...

Realism can break a writer's heart.

When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film i...

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists...

When the emergency brappers went of they did what any dedicated, well-trained and quick-minded Servi...

I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret thin...

You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten...

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...

You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly.'I'd...

On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the da...

Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to d...

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that ...

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along t...

In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literatu...

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or...

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is dest...

No ghosts need

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed ...

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your under...

I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, in...

to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they...

It may be asked how I know that there are any Reals. If this hypothesis is the sole support of my me...

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For...

The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly ...

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogr...

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the...

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out,...

A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't f...

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into ac...

The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or o...

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, b...

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some pe...

I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a Lon...

As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in a...

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are ofte...

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ...